This comic is a reference to the wildly funny video of two Cleverbots talking to each other. By recording and analyzing whatever humans type into its input, they can sound pretty human to whoever is reading their response.

Randall calls it "clumsy sampling" as they are still very far from sounding like humans and holding normal conversations.

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